On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Rocknet Helpdesk wrote:
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:53:37 +1000
> From: Rocknet Helpdesk <helpdesk@rocknet.net.au>
> To: link@boomer.anu.edu.au
>
> We are an ISP in Central Queensland
>
> We have had our supply of X rated newsgroups stopped by our supplier
> as per the following extract from an email from them...
>
>
> >We have just had a long phone meeting with our lawyers, and their
> >advice is to NOT carry any X rated material, therefore we must start to
> >filter out all smut and "morally questionable" material, and expire the
> >existing store ASAP.
> >
> >You're welcome to source a feed of these groups from ACT and NT where
> >it's legal, however once you're knowlingly storing it on your server
> >you are breaking current law and will face very large fines if any user
> >from RockNET or <omitted> reports it to the police.
> >
> >If your client <omitted> relies heavily on these groups please inform
> >him, he is asking you and I to break current law and that to be fair on
> >all parties he should import them directly from a WWW based news service.
> >
> >This must finalise the matter, we are not prepared to expose our
> >business on the whim of one of your users.
>
>
>
> Can someone please tell me if there are any such laws/regulations
> governing X-Rated material on the internet in Queensland
>
>
> Thankyou in advance
>
> Ros Rodgers
>
> rodgersr@rocknet.net.au
>
>
>
>
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